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  1. balthazar
    Model X has been available for some years- why aren’t they all already in one of those?
  2. balthazar
    You can buy bagged material all day long. Just like concrete mix is bagged.
  3. balthazar
    1. Tesla is 12 years tho, solidly past your range 2. No; that’s not how money-losing companies survive.
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    ?
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  6. balthazar
    'Old car values are starting to drop, and America's love affair with cars is dying.' Oh yeah?? Look at this frickin' madness :
  7. balthazar
    Well, sure; they can just snap their corporate fingers and change millions of minds in a slit second, suddenly consumers will be nearly possessed to go spend a minimal additional $20K to get the same vehicle with an electric motor. It really is that easy; just say it & it will happen like a lightning strike. Or, you know- it may well take a few decades to go 'massive'. It's already taken 1 and it's still barely OK for one single model. ALL BRANDS do most of their business on a few core models, even luxury brands. Look at audi, for example; they could kill fully 50% of their models and see less than a 5% change in volume. But trucks / SUVs are running what; 80% of all vehicle sales now? And still growing? Putting your eegs in one 'truck/SUV basket' is very shrewd business.
  8. balthazar
    1 million cars built, 5.7 BILLION dollars lost (since 2013). Tesla loses 6 grand on every vehicle sold. Given that their vehicles have 'so many less' parts with minimalist interiors and middle of the road quality inspection, AND their cars sell for $50K to $120K - that's saying something!
  9. balthazar
    1000 lbs is 12 bags of concrete mix. Put a driver in the vehicle and drop that to 10. Oh; you don't need to buy 10 bags of Sakrete? Fine, make it 10 cases of Coronavirus supplies/water. Just put a trunklid on it. God- even SUVs with steel roofs & tinted rear glass get cargo covers - and you're not carrying lumber in either one. I mean- just buy an SUV/CUV and have some versatility.
  10. balthazar
    OK, but I'll bet you still see F-150s everyplace in the U.S. you've been. But there are still size classes between an F-150 and a Geo Metro with no trunklid.
  11. balthazar
    Cadillac aims for the exact same demographic as mercedes, which is how the 2 brand's ABA are only about 4 years apart.
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    Those lil teeny mini pick-ups are pointless - it's a compact car missing a trunk lid. Just put a frickin trunk lid on it already; give the 5-lb bag of potting soil some weather protection and security. Why cheap out??
  14. balthazar
    • CTS-V came out in 2004, and the 4th generation is coming with a (simple name tweak) as the CT5-V. It's not "killed off". • What EV is doing "crazy volume"??
  15. balthazar
    Your body of proof?
  16. balthazar
    Shouldn't they dub it 'Bronco' and 'Bronco Connect'?
  17. balthazar
    Fastest modified Model S ludicrious mode + Upgrade quarter mile (after waiting an hour to warm the batteries and making sure it was charged to 99%) is 10.4 secs- it barely beat out the C7. When the top engine C8 Corvette debuts, it'll demolish that time. Or would you like to compare the current base C8 to the long range 100 kw trim without ludicrious mode, without Upgrade and without warming the batteries for an hour?? But I welcome your link to the Cadillac's Celestiq performance claims - I hadn't seen that that was released. BTW- at the price tier, the 'premium-class' Model S is many tiers below the future Cadillac flagship (finally we have a new Cadillac flagship!). Model S doesn't compare. Hell, it doesn't compare to a S-Class.
  18. balthazar
    Model S sales in the US peaked some years ago, and have dropped since. Tesla is acutely aware of this, proven by the company otherwise-inexplicably combining model s & X sales number together. Hides the slump. Model S is old-old-old at this point, and the Model X's curfuffle with making the REAR doors 'wing' up was a flop. Daimler is 10 years behind Tesla and still has nothing to offer. Despite them claiming they are hard and work turning over a new leaf, the company is in high investment retreat- the EQS was delayed before it was even unveiled. Firing engineers & designers not a way to combat Tesla. General Motors on the other hand has shown just how serious they are. Right or wrong, agree or disagree, the Corporation is dedicated. Reg is a the-glass-is-half-full, maybe-less, and-I-can-see-it-evaporating-from-here type, ain't he?
  19. balthazar
    Taycan isn't all that. Plus, the range isn't worthy of it's price tag. Only way tesla pickup 'eats into' Ram / GM / Ford sales is if it steals their customers. I don't remotely see that happening. The tesla truck "will have to beat out" Ram / GM / Ford, since they are the "meat of the market".
  20. balthazar
    Read a few posts up.
  21. balthazar
    Uhhh, that's not the way things were done back then. It's a Wonderful Life ~
  22. balthazar
    Ahh; a stumper! It's a GMC. They built taxi sedans for Yellow Cab in the '30s. So there is a precedent for cars at GMC. Interesting...
  23. balthazar
    It’s a ‘G’...
  24. balthazar
    Wow - no guesses on a well-known car name with this emblem?
  25. balthazar
    But..... no one gives 2 shits about Hummer's 'legacy', and Hummer was here only 10 minutes years ago. Olds, Buick & Pontiac (especially) have legions of fans, mostly centered on the Divisions heydays. Strip-mining the history books for nameplates is irrelevant laziness, and inevitably would call up near constant comparisons; taking focus off the modern product. Let the heritage Divisions RIP ((UNLESS an official Olds or Pontiac nameplate is brought back. Then at least, we could talk). Go strip-mine GMC's catalog.
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